29/05/2026

Friday Week 8 Ordinary Time

What we know about St Peter we  mainly learn from the Gospels and from  his "encyclicals".

We know that the first sentence of this morning's reading is historically incorrect. For two thousand years, Christians have struggled with the disappointment that the "end of time" has not yet materialised.

What we are and have in our lives is "God's Gift", life itself,  which we have to consciously share with all others in order to become the prayerful beings that God has created to accept and reflect the Glory of the FATHER that SON reveals is HOLY SPIRIT, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

It is true that today "time" still continues and we are still waiting for Jesus' promised return. It is also true that each individual's life is his personal time. Jesus promises to be with us until the end of time. We can only hope and pray that he will be there to help us as we breathe our last.

We know that on the night before he was betrayed, Jesus created a Sacramental new way of being "This is my body" and an Order of New Priesthood " do this in remembrance of me" to perpetuate his coming Sacrifice. At the Shrine of Pan at the foot of Mont Hermon, he had already founded the Church of Jews and Gentiles; "Thou art Peter and upon this rock......."

The Word is always present for us to find in Scripture. The Institutional Church teaches that  Jesus is also present in the Sacraments even when she herself displays unrighteous conduct. 

The Incarnation really did renew the face of the Earth" and has given us a new way of being, a new reality ,the Sacraments, a new priesthood and as he completed the human time of True Man, bleeding out in public display on Calvary he also created a New Holy Family by his words to Mary and John.

                                            "Woman behold thy son. Son behold thy mother."